Project Grant 15JCOPS25GG01015PPSE
- The City of Austin received a $250,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The grant will fund two full-time project coordinators and sworn officer overtime to support activities that will result in the city's law enforcement agency becoming accredited through the Texas Police Chiefs Association Foundation (TPCAF). This grant aims to...
- The City of Austin was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will be used to launch the Austin Downtown Entertainment District Pilot Project, which aims to build trust in the police and gain legitimacy with the community. The project has two key components: 1) Training implementation and 2) Subaward issuance...
- The Houston Police Department was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The grant will fund the creation and implementation of a comprehensive recruitment and retention program to restore the department's personnel strength to authorized levels. Key activities include in-person recruiting events, promotion of the 30x30...
- The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to the Houston Police Department (HPD) and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston (BGCGH). The funding will support the next phase of implementation for the Positive Encounters project, a trust-building initiative that will serve 300 or more sixth through ninth grade youth in...
- The City of Arlington Police Department was awarded $103,975.87 under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program by the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program to expand recruitment efforts. Specifically, the grant will fund out-of-state in-person interviews to reach a more geographically diverse pool of candidates, expand the department's marketing campaign, and attend the 2023 Police Recruitment and Retention Summit. The...
- The City of Laredo, through its Laredo Police Department, was awarded a $3,125,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program (CFDA 16.710). The grant will fund the hiring and/or rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers to increase the department's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts over a 5-year period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029. The anticipated outcomes of the COPS Hiring...
- This federal Project Grant award of $750,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will support the Austintown Township Police Department in Ohio to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Key anticipated outcomes...
- This $174,540 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will be used by the City of College Station, Texas to require all newly hired police officers to complete a no-cost, online community-policing training course certified by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. This training is intended to ensure new personnel...
- This federal Project Grant award of $175,000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The grant was awarded to the Rio Hondo Community College District to fund a multi-agency initiative aimed at enhancing law enforcement recruitment, improving public perception, and fostering long-term engagement in the law enforcement profession. Key objectives...
- The City of San Antonio received a $6,250,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The grant funding will support the City's efforts to enhance community policing capacity and crime prevention initiatives over a 5-year period from October 2024 to September 2029. Key anticipated outcomes include increased officer engagement in...
The City of Austin has been awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will support the implementation of the FY23 CPD Youth-Led Recruiting Model, a community-based, youth-led recruiting initiative to bolster officer recruitment, hiring, and retention for the Austin Police Department (APD). The program will provide consistent, reliable programming for high school students to engage with officers and create pathways for graduates to remain connected with APD until they are eligible to join the force at 20.5 years of age. The project aims to reach thousands of Austin youth through in-person events and social media, ultimately resulting in a reliable pool of local candidates, with a projected 50+ APD Bridge Academy graduates joining the Austin Police Force in FY2027-2028. The grant has a performance period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $175.0k | 10/10/25 |